30-04-2010, 06:05
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no bag, vex only, final destination
AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,624
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Re: Rules - to follow or not to follow, that is the question
My take to the rules is that they are there for your own use and your own robot. Following the rules to the letter is its own reward as you blaze through inspection and know in the end of the day you passed with a clean robot.
It's often unfair to see other robots that break multiple rules that eventually get through inspection without all of them corrected - and that sucks that they got away with it - but having it any other way wouldn't be very inspirational to the students on that team...
In the particular example above, I think that the rule is not "okay" to ignore, but if people missed it, it's not exactly a big deal at all. It's just words.
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